YMMV / Pantheon

• Awesome Art: Not only the art style has a nice Animesque feel to it, but the fight scenes are well drawn and move smoothly.
• Catharsis Factor: After all the misery he's caused Caspian, Maddie, and so many others, seeing Pope pathetically beg for mercy before Safe Surf hurls him to his well-deserved death is very gratifying.
• Evil Is Cool: Chanda once he becomes a full antagonist. Between his cool design, creative use of his UI powers, and moderately sympathetic goals, it's hard not to like him even if his actions are horrifyingly destructive.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • Fans of The Matrix seemingly get along with the fans of Pantheon with both series discussing the idea of the digital world, and what can be considered real or not.
  • The same can be said for Westworld fans who both enjoy the series for various storylines and different forms of intelligence forming.
  • Fans of Inside Job began bonding with the Pantheon fanbase after their respective shows were Screwed by the Network at almost the same time despite a second season already being announced.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The song that plays in the final episode of season one, "Don't Dream It's Over" by The Rescues, became this when AMC initially canceled their second season.
• Ho Yay: Chanda and Ping grow very close in the short time they're together. Especially since Ping's death is what finally motivates Chanda to betray Holstrom.
• Magnificent Bastard: Vinod Chanda, once a humble engineer for Alliance Telecom, becomes one of the first Uploaded Intelligences when he's used as a test subject by his corrupt boss Ajit Prasad. After escaping his digital confinement, Chanda develops a ruthless streak, orchestrating the deaths of Prasad and his family in revenge. Vowing to liberate his fellow Uploads, Chanda sends UI blueprints to world governments to create more of his kind and seeks out heroic UIs David Kim and Laurie Lowell when they involve his mother. Discovering a flaw that is corrupting and killing the Uploaded, Chanda takes matters into his own hands and begins recruiting UIs to his cause, ultimately hacking and destroying Lowell when she tries to expose the truth of UIs to the world. Chanda then challenges David to erase Laurie's recorded message while threatening Sacramento and David's daughter Maddie with a missile, engaging in a brutal fight and using his UI powers in tandem with his intellect to overpower Kim. Thwarted when David tricks him and sacrifices his own life, Chanda still escapes with his allies. Later, Chanda is coerced into serving under the megalomaniacal UI Stephen Holstrom. Disgusted with the latter's genocidal plan for humanity, Chanda covertly leads a rebellion against Holstrom and ultimately gives his own life to help stop him, ensuring humans and UIs alike have a brighter future.
• Moe: Maddie is an adorable, determined kid who loves her dad, is often prone to tears, and is basically the little sister to Caspian and Justine. We even see her as a baby.
• Moral Event Horizon: If Julius Pope didn't cross this with his twisted plan to shape Caspian, come season 2 he pole-vaults over it by cruelly wiping out the last copy of David in front of Maddie, forcing the girl to lose her father all over again, then deciding to murder Caspian since he no longer needs another Holstrom now that he's cracked integrity.
• Narm: After Laurie's destruction, the Kims and Cody argue over whether to reveal U.Is to the world. When Maddie still wants to keep David safe, Cody angrily argues back with...childish taunting. He's understandably grieving and angry, but he's still a grown man hurling playground insults at a little girl.
  "You're daddy's little girl! Waaah, I don't want my dad to die! Well he's going to, they're all going to!"
• Narm Charm: The digital world is where the animation gets really silly for a Sci-Fi Drama, since most of the epic U.I battles take place in a World of Warcraft knock-off and make use of borderline Toon Physics with David shooting Samurai Swords from his arms like gatling guns, or Laurie enlarging her body parts. But goddamn, is it cool looking.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Justine, Maddie's Only Friend other than Caspian. She loyally stays by Maddie's side for most of Season 1 and the start of Season 2, but disappears from the show completely after that, and isn't even seen or mentioned in the final episode.
  • Hannah/Rachel seems to be set up as a future ally after Caspian agrees to help her mother. Instead she also vanishes and isn't referenced again outside an inconsequential flashback to Stephen Holstrom's past. We don't even find out if Caspian actually made good on his word to help Rachel's mom.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The astronaut woman from episode 8 can be considered hard to root for, as she was willing to abandon her kids and husband for a life time on Mars and in the Cyber World. While she considered it as a mission to improve humanity, others can see it as her selfish desires for excitement with her stating that she doesn't feel comfortable living a simple life.